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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 31: Strauss's Four Last Songs and Other Romantics
Performance Date9 August 2022
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersLouise Alder - vocal
Orchestra or BandUlster Orchestra
ConductorsDaniele Rustioni
Set List'Overture and Venusberg Music' from Tannhäuser’, Wagner,
'Four Last Songs’, R. Strauss,
'Blumine’, Mahler,
'Symphony No.4 in D Minor’, Schumann
Performance NotesThe Ulster Orchestra and Chief Conductor Daniele Rustioni take us from the physical to the metaphysical in a sumptuous celebration of German Romanticism.

The Overture and Venusberg Music from Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser plays out the drama’s battle between the sensual and the spiritual in miniature, with restraint thrown to the wind in its heady Bacchanal (see also Proms 55 and 72).

Darker themes come to the fore in Schumann’s restless Symphony No. 4 and the yearning musical farewell of Strauss’ Four Last Songs, performed here by Louise Alder, while Mahler’s brief serenade Blumine, once part of his First Symphony, offers a moonlit moment of peace.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/57),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/jpfmn2hi3v0k-dz2v99
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/57BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 31: Strauss's Four Last Songs and Other Romantics9 August 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4385Alder; Louise (25 November 1986-present); British lyric soprano singer
DS/UK/946Ulster Orchestra; 1966-; Northern Irish orchestra
DS/UK/23842Rustioni; Daniele (1983-present); Italian conductor
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